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  • IET Singapore 40th Anniversary Celebrations

    It's 1.23am in Singapore as i'm typing this but with the adrenaline rush still kicking in, I can say I'm all wide awake and excited to get this blog out as soon as possible. It's amazing how IET Singapore managed to be where it is today. Although I have only contributed 2 out of the 40 years of history, the giants who's shoulder i'm stepping on today have help me achieved more than I ever can. As i reflect upon the many events, visits, policies, and legacy left behind by our pioneers, i feel that i need to contribute even more in order to make the dreams that were laid by them become a reality. The pioneers have put in their heart and soul into the IET to make the world a better place through engineering and we as the current batch of volunteers should now dream greater dreams having full faith…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • IET Cyprus Network Activities

    The IET Cyprus Network in its continues efforts to: (A) Inspire the next generation of engineers and technicians (B) Inform the wider engineering community (C) Influence government and standards to advance society   Organised the following events (A) A School Presentation (for young students) at Pascal Private Education in Nicosia on December 1 st (B) A Seminar for professionals of the field of power industry entitled  Wiring Regulations-Latest Amendments and the Way Forward on December 1 st https://communities.theiet.org/communities/events/item/28/28/15329   Sponsored an International Conference (C) Organized by the Cyprus Safety and Health Association entitled "Health and Safety in Facilities' Management" on December 3 rd http://www.cysha.org.cy/

    Christos Christou
    Christos Christou

  • Thank You To All That Attended The Inaugural Chairman's Reception On Thursday, 1 December 2016

    I would like to thank everyone who attended the Inaugural Chairman's Reception last Thursday, 1 December 2016 at The Metropolitan Hotel on William Street in the Melbourne CBD. I was very pleased to see that we had a good attendance on the evening. There was  representation from across industry, academia, other kindred professional organisations, recent presenters and workshop presenters, students and of course our committee members including the YPS. I was also very pleased to see that everyone took the opportunity to network with the guests that included students, young engineers as well as seasoned and retired engineers. A great deal of knowledge and experience was happily exchanged around the room! Judging from the excitement and satisfaction that everyone's expectations were met gives the…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Visit To University Of California San Diego – Triton Racing Team

    The Southern Californian Local Network (SoCal LN) is always looking for new and different ways to reach out to Young Professionals and other than the PATW competition there has been limited success in recruiting YPs in an environment where there is a misperception that membership of the IET is of limited benefit to those living in the US.  In an effort to change this and with having an economically “conservative” year when compared with recent years we decided to make a donation to the UCSD Triton Racing Team, who compete in the Formula SAE student racing series.  This is engineering design competition for undergraduate and graduate students organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International, also known as Formula Student in the UK, Austria and Germany.   A recent YP recruit…

    Richard Tregaskes
    Richard Tregaskes

  • Satellite Based Solutions for CNS

    Earlier this year the IET supported the Aviation Electronics Europe conference in Munich.   Although the focus of the conference was around Aviation, there were some papers that would be of interest to SSA community members and you can access the proceedings from the event by  clicking on this link  and using this password L3AVIATION

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Aviation Electronics Europe 2016 - Presentations

    Earlier this year the Aerospace TPN supported the Aviation Electronics Europe conference in Munich.   The conference covered such subjects as Innovations in Avionics, SESAR and NextGen, CNS Enabling Operational Efficiency, ADSB Updates, Standardisation and Certification, Cyber Security and the e-enabled Aircraft. You can access the proceedings from the event by clicking on this link and using this password L3AVIATION

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Do LEOs Dream Of ‘The Grand Tour’?

    We’re just finalising the filmed presentations from our World Space Week – ‘Remote Sensing Satellite Systems for Global Sustainability’ seminar and will be sharing these with you asap.  In the meantime you can view the slides from our speakers, Dr Vanessa Lawrence and Ralph Cordey here .   Paul Iliffe, winner of our  ‘Game Changing Satellite Applications’ poster competition enjoyed his prize which was a place at the Reinventing Space Conference and Dinner and a poster presentation slot, he’s shared his thoughts on the conference here in a blog . The committee are working hard on their Space Creativity Collaboration plans for next year and will be sharing these with you in due course.  Please don’t forget to have your say on what the challenges are facing the space sector here .      Call for…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Lynsay's Weekly Digest - Functional Safety. 21st November – 27th November

    Quiet week on the Functional safety news - has anyone got any good feeds/sites that they get good content from that I can tap into? Mobileye Adopts Key Synopsys Automotive  Functional Safety   Verification Solution to Enable ISO ...  Design and Reuse (press release)  "Synopsys has developed a comprehensive  functional safety  verification solution by closely collaborating with automotive SoC market-makers for their ... DEKRA Tests and Certifies World's Largest Laser Coating Removal Robot for LR Systems  AviationPros.com  ... services such as EMC (Electro Magnetic Compatibility), cybersecurity,  functional safety  testing, electrical safety, and international market access

    Lynsay Callaghan
    Lynsay Callaghan

  • Executive Committee 2019

    The IET Media Technical Network Executive Committee organises a programme of activities for engineers working within the Media, Broadcasting and Communications Industries .   All of these events and activities are made possible by the efforts of this dedicated group of volunteers.   If you would like to know more about the committee or volunteer time to help with our activities, please  get in touch .   Ian Nock Chair David Short Vice Chair Martin Russ Member  Phil Haggar Member Tsz Fei Lee Member Adriana Whiteley  Member, PR & comms Janet Greco Member Allan McLennan Stephen Plunkett  Member Keivan Navaie Member Dominic Law Member Lynda Murchie Member Stephen Cheung Member Phoebe Houssein   Community Manager

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • The IET North Yorkshire Network is now on Tumblr too

    Yes, we've taken the plunge and the IET North Yorkshire Network is now on Tumblr too so we're spreading our social networking wings. Twitter:  https://twitter.com/iet_Yorkshire Tumblr: http://iet-ny.tumblr.com You Tube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxycqKtzn3RQ1FICXx0xMw Why not subscribe or follow us along with your other social network followings?

    Paul Smith, RPS
    Paul Smith, RPS

  • IET Innovation Awards - Cyber Security Award Winner 2016

    Well done to Glasswall Solutions, the winners of the 2016 IET Innovation Cyber Security Award!  The judging panel had this to say about them: “Glasswall has developed an innovative technology that provides protection against inbound cyber threats. While the general concept of whitelisting is not new, Glasswall’s novel application of it should prove to be a beneficial step forward in protecting systems from attack by previously unseen malware. It is potentially a very valuable weapon against document-based zero day attacks.”   To read more about Glasswall Solutions and the other nominnees, please visit the Innovation Awards website

  • Solar card through time

    The multiple faces of our Solar Card in photos.

    Alkis Spyrou
    Alkis Spyrou

  • School presentation at PASCAL Primary School and PASCAL English Schools

    Like every year, we visited  PASCAL Primary School and PASCAL English Schools to speak with the students about engineering, the IET and how it can help them with their studies and professional development. The students were very interested and intrigued on the subject and asked many questions at the end. %u200BPhotos are attached.

    Alkis Spyrou
    Alkis Spyrou

  • Electromagnetic Modelling And Simulations - Event Review

    Earlier this week I attended my first RF & Microwave event – the Electromagnetic Modelling and Simulations event held at Nottingham University. We gathered on a sunny but frosty morning at the University of Nottingham for a day of presentations from a variety of different speakers. Chris Dodds, one of the organisers, kicked off the day with a short video before introducing out first keynote speaker, Alexandros Feresidis from the University of Birmingham.   Our second keynote, which launched the afternoon session, was Professor Dave Thomas from the University of Nottingham. He gave an interesting and informative talk on TLM.   In between our keynotes we heard from a number of speakers from different backgrounds; please see the photos in this blog for details of the speakers we heard from on…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • Electric Motorsports Are Go For The ARTS TPN!

    After many months of planning we’ve now finalised our plans for the Electrification in Motorsports – Design and Technology’ seminar which we’ll be hosting at Coventry Transport Museum   One of my colleagues has just returned from a site visit and has come back with some great feedback about the venue, so together with our line-up of speakers, we look to be in for an excellent event.   Click here to find out further information about the programme and how to register.   On the subject of Motorsports, we’re still looking for volunteers from this sector to join our ARTS TPN Executive team.  Please have a look at this information sheet which gives more information about the role and if you’re interested drop me an email Deborah-Claire McKenzie .     As I mentioned last month, Matthew Clarke has…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Keeping On Track With The Railway Network

    I’m looking forward to the Railway Lecture and Dinner on 30 November, which will be back this year, for the first time since the refurbishment at Savoy Place.    We’ll also be showcasing the winning poster from our Best Posters competition at the Railway Lecture and Dinner and I’m delighted to announce that the winner is Deji Balogun.  Deji is a graduate Communications and Control Engineer at WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff with a background in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He studied at the University of Bradford and at the University of Hull where he further developed on his passion for technology and innovation. He is very excited to be part of an industry that is continuously growing with much more improvements to be made and he aspires to forge the tracks connecting the rail industry…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • The Skies Are Not The Limit!

    Its been a busy few weeks for the TPN, first off  we had an excellent seminar on ‘Addressing Ageing Aircraft Sustainment Issues’ on 26 October 2016.  Air Marshal Julian Young was the keynote speaker and we’ll be publishing the link soon to the presentations that were filmed for IET.tv soon, so if you weren’t able to come along then you’ll have an opportunity to listen to some excellent speakers.  Following the event I took the opportunity to have a catch-up and record a short podcast with Kevin ‘Taff’ Stone from the Vulcan project.  Since then I've recorded a couple of additional podcasts with Steve Reed from DTSL which you can listen to here for the first one and the second one here .   Lee Murton, Chairman of our Young Professionals group recently attended an International Cross Safety Conference…

    Deborah-Claire McKenzie
    Deborah-Claire McKenzie

  • Come to join our HKLN!

    On 29 October 2016, IET Hong Kong organized the Branch Volunteer Conference for Session 2016-2017. The new Office Bearers and Section Charimen presented their vision and plannings for the upcoming year. We had an informative and happy afternoon.  Share our happiness and see our photos -  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B756ajN0v3LVYkJrZ205QUpsZkE In session 2016-2017, IET Hong Kong would development a Volunteer Service Scheme, details will be announced soon. If you are interersted, please follow us! Nympha Community Relationship Manager

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Energy University

    The Communities Committee - Asia Pacific (CC-AP) has been made aware of an initiative called Energy University. This is available free to IET members, and I have attached information about it to this blog post. Please share it with anyone that you think would be interested in it.   A couple of caveats - the IET does not endorse this product, nor does it take responsibility for data collected by the initiative.

    Karla Smith
    Karla Smith

  • IET Annual Healthcare Lecture 2016

    On 22 November 2016 the IET's Healthcare Technologies Technical and Professional Network held the network's flagship event, the Annual Healthcare Lecture. The network's two 2016 Healthcare award winners gave their fantastic winning presentations followed by a fascinating keynote talk by Chris Lewis of Lewis Insight on the 'Hyper-Connected individual meets the Healthcare system'. Here's a snapshot of some of the online tweets and photos from the event.   [ View the story "IET Healthcare Technologies Annual Healthcare Lecture 2016" on Storify ]

    Gemma Hadley
    Gemma Hadley

  • Start Your Story: The EngiMake Story

    A few weeks ago we launched the Start Your Story campaign which aims to tell more young engineering and tech entrepreneurs about how the IET can help them in their journey to innovation and commercial success. Following the launch of the campaign, two engineering graduates from the University of Manchester got in touch because they have just launched a Kickstarter campaign to develop QuadBot: a DIY 3D printable walking robot.  Both IET members, Jack Scott-Reeve and Josh Elijah developed Quadbot to help users with little or no prior engineering experience to understand electronics, coding, 3D design and printing, and maths for robotics. “Really the big problem we’re trying to solve is giving anyone the opportunity to learn robotics,” explains Jack. “We want to address this by creating a robotics…

    Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

  • Join the Cyber Security Executive Team

    Join the Cyber Security TPN Executive Team Are you working or studying in Cyber Security? Are you passionate about supporting the community? Do you have 3-4 days per year that you can volunteer to attend committee meetings and organise activities? We’d love to hear from you! The  IET Cyber Security Network  is seeking professional engineers working in this field to join our Executive Team. We’re trying to make the Executive Committee representative of as wide a cross-section of the Cyber Security community as we can, so whatever your role in the industry, we’d love to hear from you. What is the role of the Network?  The role of the Network is to provide a platform that enables the exchange of knowledge and information amongst the community through a variety of networking opportunities.  This…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • IET Surrey 2017-18 Main Lecture Programme

    The following is a list of the proposed events for 2017-18. These events should not be considered as confirmed until they appear on the IET calander of events on the front page of the Surrey web site. Most events will be taking place in the main lecture theatre in the Rik Medlik Building (BSOM), on the third Wednesday of the month but there may be exceptions. If anyone has any ideas for a lecture for the 2018-19 session that starts on 1 October 2018, then please sign in and post a comment below, or email surrey@theiet.org   .   Date Event (abbreviated title) Attended 2017     19 Oct Real world uses for virtual reality   15 Nov Autonomous vehicles: The rise of the machines      6 Dec Childrens Christmas Lecture: Drones          2018     18 Jan Space Travel   21 Feb Horizontal Innovation    21…

  • Access to the Library online catalogue

    We are having issues with accessing the online Library catalogue. If you would like to renew, borrow or search for books and journals, please contact the Library Desk on 020 73445461 or libdesk@theiet.org. We are working on the problem and hope to restore access as soon as possible. Anne Locker Library and Archives Manager

    Anne Locker
    Anne Locker

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